Patterson, who was seriously injured in a car accident last August, is peeved with Bolger over the way Republicans are handling hearings on legislation that would eliminate unlimited lifetime medical benefits to those injured in motor vehicle accidents. Michigan is the only state that provides such coverage.

Plus, Patterson said on the show, Bolger is getting too big for his britches: "Adolf' Bolger, you mean? He's really become very arrogant and he's throwing his weight around up there. If he thinks he's going to be a candidate for governor, he better learn how to control his temper, he better learn to work with the consensus within his own party."

Patterson also put a black comb under his nose to emulate Hitler's mustache.

He isn't the first to compare an elected leader to the German fuhrer. Many who disliked former President George W. Bush called him a modern-day Hitler for invading Iraq. And President Barack Obama is regularly portrayed as Hitler by folks who think he's trying to seize control of the government by taking our guns and requiring citizens to have health insurance, among other things.

Maybe we've forgotten just how bad a guy Hitler, who died in 1945, really was. He started a world war, exterminated 6 million Jews and targeted other ethnic groups in his attempt to create a white master race. None of our elected officials can seriously be accused of doing anything that approaches those atrocities, thank God.

Patterson probably wasn't being serious when he equated Bolger to Hitler. He's long been known for his outrageous antics and statements. Republicans and Democrats are equal-opportunity targets for Brooks. He once demanded that former Republican Gov. John Engler spend more money to fix the roads by having himself photographed standing waist-deep in a giant, fake pothole and distributing the photo to the media.

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A lot of people who hadn't been paying attention likely are now aware of the fight over reforming the state's no-fault insurance law as a result of Patterson's Hitler remark. But Brooks is a clever guy who could have come up with an equally effective way of drawing attention to the issue without making the tasteless Hitler comparison. He has since apologized.

Republicans weren't the only ones acting up last week. House Democratic Leader Tim Greimel expressed his frustration with Bolger and other Republicans by saying he would no longer "negotiate with terrorists."

Snyder, as we know, is all about relentless, positive action to create jobs and businesses, and using state government to better serve Michigan's nearly 10 million "customers." Our nerdy CPA governor views all this Hitler and terrorist talk as not being very helpful to his reinvention of Michigan.